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Home Mig Welding Made Easier The Millermatic 211 And Fseries Arcstation Welding In Progress

It’s difficult to build a well-working off-road ride these days without doing a little welding. The term “bolt-on” just doesn’t work for everything, and sometimes you need a small (or big) job welded together to accomplish your goals. Unfortunately not all of us have access to a welder, nor room to house a welding station. Miller has you covered on both fronts.

The portable F-Series ArcStation welding table gives you a steel work top to weld on that you can collapse and put in the corner of your garage when not in use, making “limited workspace” no longer a valid excuse.

But to use a portable welding table, you’ll need a welder that can suit a guy who’s never had room to learn to weld before. Miller’s new Millermatic 211 Auto-Set with MVP allows success for the most skilled to even the most novice of MIG welders. It plugs in to either a 120-volt or 230-volt socket meaning you can use it almost anywhere, and with the Auto-Set feature, even the most novice welder can start practicing after setting the thickness of the material being worked on. For about $1,200, Miller allows the average enthusiast to start with a good quality welder that will still suit their needs no matter how good they become at laying beads.

Home Mig Welding Made Easier The Millermatic 211 And Fseries Arcstation Millermatic 211

01. The Millermatic 211 can weld mild steel or aluminum (with the optional spoolgun). It can spit out solid steel or stainless wire between 0.023 and 0.035 inches, or flux cored wire between 0.030 and 0.045 inches.

It MIG welds with an amperage range between 30 and 210 amps.

02. The dual input power capability helps put this Miller Mwillermatic 211 Auto-Set with MVP welder a step above its competition. Two plugs are given; one for a 120-volt plug, and one for the 230-volt plug. Simply attach whichever plug you’re going to use and plug the welder in. Note that you will not be able to weld as thick of material on 120 volts.
02. The dual input power capability helps put this Miller Mwillermatic 211 Auto-Set with
03. Like most Miller welders we’ve used, ours has a lot of useful data right on the inside of the access panel, pertinent to the welder. It’s a great reference guide, and invaluable to a beginning welder.
03. Like most Miller welders we’ve used, ours has a lot of useful data right on the insi
04. The Millermatic 211 Auto-Set was built with ease of use for the average consumer in mind. On the back there is a big, white “On/Off” switch, and on the front there are two dials; one for wire speed and one for material thickness. The switch on the lower right of the welder is used if you’d like to weld aluminum with an optional spool gun. Left of that switch is an over-temperature indicator light.
04. The Millermatic 211 Auto-Set was built with ease of use for the average consumer in

05. Unless you like welding on the ground or in dirt, you’re going to need a steel tabletop to weld on and clamp things to. But unfortunately a lot of guys don’t have any enough room for a welding table. Miller’s portable F-Series ArcStation supports up to 500 pounds and gives a great platform to weld on. It folds up into a flat unit you can lay against your wall so it’s up and out of the way.
05. Unless you like welding on the ground or in dirt, you’re going to need a steel table
06. At 74 pounds the ArcStation is the same weight as the welder, but we must admit it’s a little more difficult to move on the rolling wheels than we’d like. After folding the table up with the wheels down (grabbing the legs) you have to be well under 6-feet tall to comfortably roll the table along without stooping over. We might just have to cut those wheels off and use our Millermatic 211 to weld them closer to the edge!
06. At 74 pounds the ArcStation is the same weight as the welder, but we must admit it’s
07. Kibbe tried the Auto-Set mode with real appreciation for a machine that correctly picks wire speed. Auto-Set has two selections for either 0.030 or 0.035 wire. Once you have Auto-Set on, you can choose the correct steel thickness with the lower knob and you’re ready to weld.
07. Kibbe tried the Auto-Set mode with real appreciation for a machine that correctly pi

08. Ryan Kibbe of KibbeTech only TIG welds at his shop—in fact he doesn’t even own a MIG welder. But we convinced him to come over and try out our new Millermatic 211 put on Auto-Set to give us his opinions and see how he’d do with a MIG weld. After setting the correct material thickness, he laid down some pretty impressive looking practice beads for a guy that never MIG welds.
08. Ryan Kibbe of KibbeTech only TIG welds at his shop—in fact he doesn’t even own a MIG
09. For another test of the Millermatic 211, we had an upper control arm mount on a Dana 30 axle truss that had ripped clean off at the welds. This is weld failure due to one (or both) of two things: the material was not prepped correctly, or the welding was done incorrectly (incorrect setting, wire, method, or something). You can see some material still left on the truss at the end of the mount, where the weld actually did penetrate well.
09. For another test of the Millermatic 211, we had an upper control arm mount on a Dana
10. Kibbe clamped the broken mount to the ArcStation table and made sure to remove all paint and oil residue, along with all the old welds so that his new welds will correctly penetrate.
10. Kibbe clamped the broken mount to the ArcStation table and made sure to remove all pa

Home Mig Welding Made Easier The Millermatic 211 And Fseries Arcstation Completed Welding

11. We’re extremely pleased with Kibbe’s mending welds done with the Millermatic 211 switched to Auto-Set—especially considering we left the axle under the Jeep and difficult to weld onto. The upper control arm was reattached to the newly rewelded mount, and we’ve had no problems to date since.

Millermatic 211 with Auto-Set 120V/230V

Processes: MIG (GMAW) and flux cored (FCAW)
Input Power(s): 230 V, 25 amps, 60 HZ, single phase, or 120 V, 20 amps, 60 Hz, single phase
Output Power(s): 150 amps at 30-percent duty cycle (230 V), 90 amps at 20-percent duty cycle (120 V)
Material Types: Steel and aluminum
Material Thickness: 24-gauge to 3/8-inch (mild steel), 18-gauge to 3/8-inch (aluminum)
Welding Amperage Range: 30-210 amps
Wire Speed: 60-460 inches per minutes
Spool Size Capacity: 8-inch maximum
Required Gas: 75-percent Argon/25-percent Oxygen
Weight: 74 pounds